those are rookie numbers. you gotta pump those way up.
first find your geographic fantasy area. like it would be a huge bonus to work in that area, maybe <7 minutes from home… go aggressive on that area, even if they don’t have a job posted, just reach out anyway and follow up 3 days later.
then look for remote of any type, if your home life is conducive to it. even if its not your ideal industry or position, people are drastically happier with the work/life balance.
then of course within your industry and position matches go for broke. even if its out of your area, ask if they would consider you remote. don’t assume anything.
Lining up and shooting was the best way to use inaccurate muskets. One guy can’t shoot accurately at all, plus it takes lots of time to reload after each shot.
So you line up 20 dudes and have them shoot 5 or 10 at a time. That makes it more likely to hit something with each volley, and protects the guys who are reloading. The main skill for soldiers wasn’t aiming, it was reloading quickly.
It wasn’t actually more efficient. Having all of you’re guys in a huge box makes it easier to hit than having you’re infantry spread out. It was mostly a morale thing, having other soldiers within arms range made you reconsider running away. While being engaged with huge volleys by these squares made you very much consider if you should run anyway.
You have to line up musket troops to give them orders too. There’s no radio and you have to shout over the noise and smoke.
Remember, these are black powder guns. They’re loud. If your troops are right next to each other you can more easily direct them to fire, advance, or retreat. Advancing or retreating quickly can take advantage of enemy weaknesses and break up the opposing army. If your guys are spread out, you can’t tell them anything.
Having many guys with pointy sticks (muskets with bayonets in this case) was still the best way to defend against cavalry.
Having one big blob of people with pointy sticks also enabled charges to rout the enemy and stoped them from doing it to you.
I believe the french very much did this. In the Napoleonic wars they mostly used conscripts I believe, so big blocks helped while the British had a more professionally setup army (not that all of its participants were willing either though!) tend to use thinner lines to maximise the shots they could get out.
That’s vulnerable to cavalry charges though, so they had square formations they could get into in order to protect against that.
Both sides then had skirmishers that had more modern tactics to harras and kill officers etc. Some even had rifles. They had to retreat back to the main body if there were cavalry anywhere near though.
It had fuck-all to do with their muskets and everything to do with command and control. In this era, instantaneous communication is limited to visual or aural signals, and your weaponry temporarily deafens soldiers and fills the field with sight-obstructing smoke. Effective battlefield communication extends only a few dozen yards.
In this environment, the commander who groups and tightly controls his forces has a significant advantage over one who does not.
i think if we stayed with the idea of God’s representing natural phenomena and being flawed characters vs single deity that is all seeing all powerful and a singular conduit and thus used by ambitious men and women to control the masses be it a pope or televangelist.
As we learned more about the ways of science I think they would have gracefully faded into the background and turned into the fables they are today.
There are exceptions to when a license is required to play copyrighted music; stores under 2,000 square feet, and restaurants and bars under 3,750 square feet, can play music over a radio, TV, or similar device, but there have to be fewer than six speakers carrying the sound.
I may not actually need to get a commercial license, my shop is 1500 square feet, and I have at max 2 speakers.
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